The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-01
Local and state Notes.


Tickets TO tourists points go on sale to-day
rates showing no material change from those of
last year.
H. C. Diehl, general freight agent of the l..
b. g. W., has gone to Buffalo, N Y. to attend
the line meetings:
A passenger rate between the Wabash
and the Chicago 81 Alton, the business they
carry between Kansas City and Chicago is i'm
minent
The earnings of the L. N. A. g. C. road the
the corresponding week of 1885, $11. 600. The
increase in earnings since the LIST of January is
$780, 2I
Heavy shipments of hogs from Kansas City
and from St. Joe are coming in here over the
Wabash and l., ID. g. S., these roads seemingly
having the winning hold on this traffic from the
points named.
District Passenger Agents Wade, of the Wa
BASH and Janowitz of the Northern Pacific, to-
day remove their headquarters from the room
recently occupied by the Wabash people, in the
Bates House. to 48 South Illinois street.
The widow of Joel Sylvester who resides at
Jeffersonville. has been notified she will, in
few days, be paid $4,000 on policy in the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers taken
out shortly before her husbands death.
Commencing with to-day, mileage tickets on
the Decline will be good on the |. 81 St. l..
the Dayton e. Union roads. Heretofore there
have been separate mileage books for each of
the roads named, although operated by the same
company.
Chicago grain men are complaining that the
suspension of the long and short haul clause has
enabled some of the Western roads to make very
low rates to Southern points, and that ir has cut
off the business of Chicago, the grain be ing
shipped through in bulk.
If reports are true matters on the Ohio G. Mis-
eissippi are not moving along very smoothly.
The breach between the president and the gen.
eral superintendent is said to be widening, and
the employees taking sides, which tends to
demoralze things badly.
President Cummings denies the report that
ha Is selling his Lake Erie 81 Western stock. He
says that the roac > earning at the rate of 6
per cent dviderJ on the preferred stock and he
expects the stock VIII be selling 20 per cent.
higher before the year closes
Lumbershippers at Toledo, Cleveland and
Columbus are complaining over the high rates
TO Missouri-river points, and charge that Michi-
gan City, Indianapolis ana number of other
points are given lower rates. They ask that the
matter 90 given attention by the general freight
agents.
Revised and in most cases lower rates to dis
tant points take effect to-day. For some days
past the general freight agents of Indianapolis
lines have been busy adjusting their tariffs to
shipments are made Most of the changes to
Northwestern and Southern points.
The e., L., St L. & c., the J., NJ. & ]. and the
L., n. A. ~ G. roads are carrying considerable
grain southwark On Sunday the c., l., St. Il.
a. G. had seventeen freight trains the road,
and large per cent. of the loaded with
grain, which forwarded south from Cincin-
natl. over the Cincinnati Southern, to Southern
markets.
Railroad managers are taking an increased in
terest in their bridges, and are showing great
desire to have them safe and OF the most dur
able character. There are still railroad bridges
IN this State which have been in service twenty
years. During that time the weight of locomo-
tives and trains has been dou bled, and the old
style bridge is too weak for the present traffic
over it.
General passenger agents of the Western lines
have been notified that the 1nterstate-commerce
Commissioners will this week take up the com
all roaha uSf a
York Central and Pennsylvania. Commission
ers Fink and Blanchard will represent the East
ern lines, and the Western lines will have com
petent men to look after their interests. An
early decision is looked for which it is expected
will put an end TO the boycott, one way or the
other
Indianapolis is to be the gathering point for a
large number of the members of the National
Yardmasters' Mutual Benefit Association who
will GO to Detroit to attend the annual meeting,
which convenes there on the Sth of this month.
From this point the Woodruff Seeping-car |
Company will furnish free the coaches necessary |
90 carry the members and their wives. should |
the coaches to Michigan City, and at that point 1
the Michigan Central will take them to De- |
troit 10 return by the Same route, both roads |
giving free transportation.
Now that T. b. Thomas is made general man
sger of the East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia
road managers of Northern lines expect that he
will SEQ 10 il that the cars OF Northern roads
are returned more promptly. There has been |
much complaint in the North over this road 1
holding and using in their local business cars
which were sent TO points on their line from the
North. loaded with freight without breaking
bulk. All the Southern roads have been doing
more or less of this business. but the Il. T., V.
& g. has been more dishonorabe in the matter
than a majority of the Southern lines.
The Indianapolis division of the National
Yardmasters Association elected as delegates to
the annual meeting Charles Clark. of the Wa
bash; Geo McCutcheon, of the L.. b. e. W., and
j. vi. Bruner, Of the Beo-line. Joseph Sanger,
the secretary of the association and j. O. Hicks,
chairman Of the executive committee, will also
act as delegates for the Indianapolis division.
Sanger's report will show that during
the past year 167 new members have come into
the organization. For, taking part in strikes